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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"woodland clearance"”.
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Impact of tobacco growing and curing on indigenous woody vegetation : The case of Choma district, Zambia
… as a major factor, among others,contributing to woodland clearance. Tobacco production is associated with deforestation because it requires large quantities of fuelwood in the curing process without any legal requirement for the growers to replace the woody vegetation that is consumed.The study …
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Impact of tobacco growing and curing on indigenous woody vegetation : The case of Choma district, Zambia
… as a major factor, among others,contributing to woodland clearance. Tobacco production is associated with deforestation because it requires large quantities of fuelwood in the curing process without any legal requirement for the growers to replace the woody vegetation that is consumed.The study …
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The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in the southern region of Ireland: a Bayesian approach to the integration of the palaeoenvironmental and archaeological records
… examining the timing, extent and nature of woodland disturbance, agricultural activity and settlement during the period. This study represents the first explicit use of the Bayesian approach to address these issues and served to refine and integrate the two principal proxies available for …
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A panyological study of the impact of man on the landscape of central Southern England, with special reference to the chalklands
… provides evidence for the Boreal and Atlantic woodland of the chalk and exhibits an early Ulmus decline clearance. Open conditions appear to have prevailed in at least this area of the Hampshire Downs since the Early Neolithic. The Snelsmore data show that from the end of the UImus decline …
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The Built Environment and Material Culture of Ireland in the 1641 Depositions, 1600-1654
… to incorporate these into their lives abroad. Woodland clearance supplied timber and destroyed the wood kerne-infested fastness, and new houses erected on plantation settlements rattled a landscape still speckled with the wattle huts of its native inhabitants. Using the 1641 Depositions as the …
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Out of the Round: A Palaeoecological Investigation into Human-Environmental Interactions of Bronze and Iron Age Hut Circle Communities in Gairloch, Wester Ross
… Research Framework, investigating themes such as woodland exploitation, patterns in settlement activity, resource use and social response to climate change (ScARF 2012a, 2012b). The results found evidence for a continuity of settlement in this landscape during the study period, with no evidence of …
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A high-resolution palaeoecological study of land use change during late prehistory on Exmoor
… data from Exmoor shows a general trend of woodland clearance from the late Neolithic onwards, which was largely completed by the late Iron Age. This trend has been associated with an increase in the charcoal data and a coinciding decrease of pastoralism. Results further suggest that …
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Niche construction and plant-use in the Mesolithic
… of wild plants, and by creating and maintaining woodland clearances to increase their control over animal and plant resources. Recently, it was suggested that Mesolithic people in Ireland may have created their own niches through similar practices, but this hypothesis has not been tested. This …